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  • eider
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    Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post

    "a foundation"?
    Maybe that's an UK term.....

    You really are a very strange fellow.
    No..... you just aren't aware of the area that the building remains of Sepphoris comprise........ that's really really big, strange as it seems to you.
    It might be worthwhile to read about the history of Zippori/Sepphoris.....??

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  • Sparko
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    Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
    Thanks for relieving the tent-sion. You've made everyone a happy camper.
    Yeah everyone was getting too tents.

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  • rogue06
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    Originally posted by Sparko View Post

    This thread is getting in tents.
    Thanks for relieving the tent-sion. You've made everyone a happy camper.

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  • Sparko
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    Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
    This thread is getting in tents.

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  • rogue06
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    Originally posted by Sparko View Post

    It's the mountain he made of the molehill!
    drum-monkey.gif

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  • Sparko
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    Originally posted by alaskazimm View Post

    For the sarcastically impaired the following is said in jest

    Well, if they lived in tents then obviously they packed up the tents when they moved on so there wouldn't be any evidence left. QED.

    you are forgetting about all of those fossilized tents that look like buildings that were left behind!

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  • alaskazimm
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    Originally posted by Sparko View Post

    Uh, rogue and others already did that. And eider, you have zero evidence, archeological or otherwise that they all lived in tents.
    For the sarcastically impaired the following is said in jest

    Well, if they lived in tents then obviously they packed up the tents when they moved on so there wouldn't be any evidence left. QED.

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  • tabibito
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    even in the early first century this was probably a population able to live well above subsistence level, if in no respect wealthy.

    Dark, Ken. Archaeology of Jesus' Nazareth (p. 146). OUP Oxford. Kindle Edition.


    And an interesting off topic snippet:

    Hardly any of the millions of people in the Roman provinces in the first few centuries ad are mentioned in written sources. Those that are mentioned are almost always referred to in the context of wars or services undertaken for the Roman state, such as being in the Roman army or government. We have no reason to believe that Jesus fell into either category.

    Dark, Ken. Archaeology of Jesus' Nazareth (p. 149). OUP Oxford. Kindle Edition.

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  • Sparko
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    Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post

    Look, man, if eider needs Nazareth to be located atop a hill for his argument to work, then you better believe that in his world, it's located atop a hill. Get with the program!
    It's the mountain he made of the molehill!

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  • Sparko
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    Originally posted by eider View Post

    Yes. The archeological evidence suggests one or two buildings from the 1st century. Now please show me your evidence that buildings were the general habitations in, say, 1 AD.
    Can you do that, please?
    Uh, rogue and others already did that. And eider, you have zero evidence, archeological or otherwise that they all lived in tents.

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  • rogue06
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    Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post

    You wanna add his brain to your collection, don't you?

    jars of brains.jpg
    Later. There's always plenty of time for that.

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  • Cow Poke
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    Originally posted by rogue06 View Post

    Tory will always have a place at roguetech lab and bait shop

    He'd fit right in.
    You wanna add his brain to your collection, don't you?

    jars of brains.jpg

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  • Mountain Man
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    Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
    Not atop a hill moron.
    Look, man, if eider needs Nazareth to be located atop a hill for his argument to work, then you better believe that in his world, it's located atop a hill. Get with the program!

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  • rogue06
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    Originally posted by eider View Post

    There was a foundation from early first century known about 20 years ago.
    So what are you talking about?

    But one of two do not make a street of houses.
    Nazareth was a busy place like all the opther hilltops around Sepphoris, once Antipas had commenced a restoration of the 7 acre city.
    Not atop a hill moron.

    Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
    As you've been informed, Nazareth is not perched atop a hill as you continue to fantasize. Instead it's located within a small basin that's surrounded by hills.

    What do we know about Nazareth in Jesus’ time? An archaeologist explains
    There are geographical, environmental explanations for Nazareth being so small, she said. Nazareth was set in a small basin surrounded by hills and wasn’t very accessible. It did have a water supply from what is called today Mary’s Well, and there is evidence of some limited terraced agriculture, as well as pasture fields. But since the town wasn’t located on a roadway, “people didn’t go through Nazareth unless they specifically wanted to go there. And that was really the reason that it remained a small site until the 19th century.”


    Nazareth: The Significance in Jesus’ Time
    Located in the lower part of Galilee, a district in the north of Israel, 56 km west of the sea of Galilee, set in a small basin, lies the ancient city of Nazareth.


    Responding to the Skeptic’s Attack Against Nazareth
    He wrote: “The fact that habitations and other domestic evidence have never been uncovered on the hillside confirms the obvious. It is clear that the settlement in all ancient periods was situated on the valley floor” (p. 68).

    [...]

    From the few written sources that there are, we know that in the first century CE Nazareth was a small Jewish village, located inside a valley.


    Holman Bible Dictionary
    Nazareth was located in lower Galilee about halfway between the Sea of Galilee and the Mediterranean Sea. It lay in the hill country north of the Plain of Esdraelon. The hills formed a natural basin with three sides, but open toward the south. The city was on the slopes of the basin, facing east and southeast.


    McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia
    Dr. Porter (Hand-bookfor Syria and Palestine, 2:359) has described Nazareth as lying at the bottom of "the hill on the northside" of the little plain.

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  • rogue06
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    Originally posted by Diogenes View Post
    FIFY n/c

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